Comments on: Bread Baking Glossary | Spelt | Durum | Kamut | Flour http://breadhealthy.com/featured-articles/bread-baking-glossary-spelt-durum-kamut-flour Healthy Bread Recipes | Healthy Lifestyle Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:45:04 +0000 hourly 1 By: George Dr. Kracker http://breadhealthy.com/featured-articles/bread-baking-glossary-spelt-durum-kamut-flour/comment-page-1#comment-441 George Dr. Kracker Sun, 07 Nov 2010 13:20:58 +0000 http://breadhealthy.com/?p=309#comment-441 Dear Karl, to be truthful, I have never tried to bake with Kamut. Kamut is a durum wheat, and to use it, you would have to blend it with some wheat flour. Check out any of the Semolina bread recipes and use the Kamut in place of the Semolina. For the spelt, you will need to add some acids to your dough to strengthen spelt's weak gluten. Spelt bread rises fine, but it will usually collapse when it goes in the oven. You can create the acid via a preferment or by adding ascorbic acid (vitamin C). It doesn't take much ascorbic, just a small piece of a vitamin C tab, ground and dissolved. I prefer the preferment. Don't over do it with the yeast. More yeast is never the answer. Try the spelt, using the principles in our Flatbread recipe. george Dear Karl, to be truthful, I have never tried to bake with Kamut. Kamut is a durum wheat, and to use it, you would have to blend it with some wheat flour. Check out any of the Semolina bread recipes and use the Kamut in place of the Semolina. For the spelt, you will need to add some acids to your dough to strengthen spelt’s weak gluten. Spelt bread rises fine, but it will usually collapse when it goes in the oven. You can create the acid via a preferment or by adding ascorbic acid (vitamin C). It doesn’t take much ascorbic, just a small piece of a vitamin C tab, ground and dissolved. I prefer the preferment. Don’t over do it with the yeast. More yeast is never the answer. Try the spelt, using the principles in our Flatbread recipe. george

]]> By: Karl http://breadhealthy.com/featured-articles/bread-baking-glossary-spelt-durum-kamut-flour/comment-page-1#comment-440 Karl Sat, 06 Nov 2010 19:10:58 +0000 http://breadhealthy.com/?p=309#comment-440 Can you use KAMUT or SPELT Flour the same way as BREAD FLOUR in order to bake BREAD? Do those two flours require MORE YEAST perhaps? Appreciate to hear from you and Many Thanks in Advance, Karl H. Seeh, Toronto, Ont. CANADA Can you use KAMUT or SPELT Flour the same way as BREAD FLOUR in order to bake BREAD?
Do those two flours require MORE YEAST perhaps?

Appreciate to hear from you and Many Thanks
in Advance,
Karl H. Seeh,
Toronto, Ont. CANADA

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